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Title:
Ten days in a mad-house
Author:
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922, author.
Edition:
Illustrated edition.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
[Charleston, South Carolina] : [CreateSpace], [2015]
Physical Description:
100 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781519649263
Abstract:
In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover for the New York World newspaper by feigning insanity to investigate conditions at the Blackwell's Island insane asylum.
Personal Subject:
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922.
Corporate Subject:
N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum.
Subject Term:
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York.

Employment agencies -- New York (State) -- New York.

Paper box industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees.

Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- New York.
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- Hospitals.

Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
Language:
English
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